5 PhD Fellowships, Université Côte d’Azur, France (2018)

Université Côte d’Azur (UCA) is offering exceptional candidates 5 fully-funded fellowships to begin no later than October 2018. The objective is to recruit and support the most academically qualified and promising early-stage researchers worldwide who are developing a research program involving one or more laboratories within UCA.

Eligibility
- The Doctoral Program of Excellence is intended to be a recruiting tool to help UCA attract outstanding students entering doctoral programs. Current students already in one of the UCA member institutions will, therefore, receive lower priority than students graduating from other institutions;
- Applicants may have received a Master’s degree, but should not have yet been awarded a doctoral degree. Students who have not yet completed their Master’s degree by the application deadline but who may nevertheless be ready for a Ph.D. program — as attested to, for example, by the completion of significant undergraduate or master’s level research — may also apply (see below). They would be eligible to receive a doctoral program of excellence fellowship only after proving that they have completed their master’s degree;
- Applicants who have previously been considered but who received a grade of B or C during the selection process are not allowed to re-apply in the subsequent session;
- A potential supervisor can only support one candidate. A candidate may only apply with one research project and one supervisor;
- Research projects must follow French and European regulations on ethics issues in order to be eligible for funding. In particular, projects involving activities aimed at human cloning for reproductive purposes, or intended to modify human genetics in a heritable manner, or aimed at creating human embryos for the sole purpose of research, cannot be funded. All applications involving other ethical issues will be required to declare them and to provide additional information and documentation.

Fellowship
The Doctoral Program of Excellence offers fellowships consisting of an annual service-free contract with a gross salary of 2500 EUR per month, guaranteed for a maximum duration of three years. This comes with the support of up to 1500 EUR/year to defray the costs of participation in international conferences or workshops.

In addition to this financial support, UCA considers the awarding of a fellowship from the Doctoral Program of Excellence as a highly significant accomplishment. When relevant, other professional or academic opportunities will be made available to the selected doctoral candidates.

UCA will also consider proposals based on a co-financing agreement with another university, research center, funding agency… Information should be then provided about the nature of the cooperation, the location of the student.

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5 PhD Fellowships, Université Côte d’Azur, France (2018)